The critically acclaimed film ?Last Life in the Universe? will be showing tomorrow night as the Bermuda International Film Festival?s August film night selection.

The film has been screened at nearly 20 festivals world-wide including Toronto, Venice, London, Sundance, Rotterdam and Karlovy Vary. It has been widely praised by the world?s film critics and has won several awards.

It earned an International Critics Award FIPRESCT at a Bangkok film festival and lead actor, Asano Todanobu, won the best actor award in Venice.

The film is a Thai and Japanese co-production from director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang.

It tells the story of Kenji, a shy, mysterious, obsessive-compulsive, suicidal Japanese librarian, who is living in Bangkok.

Kenji lives within a neatly organised world where he fantasises constantly about committing suicide, but is interrupted every time he attempts to end his life.

Through a tragic chain of events, he is thrown together with a Thai woman, who is everything that he is not. He is a neat freak who keeps his dishes washed and his books neatly stacked and categorised.

She dresses like a slob, smokes pot and never picks anything up.

It?s a match that somehow works, though.

With Kenji, Asano Tadanobu is said to have created a protagonist who says more with his silences than most characters do with dialogue.

Film critic Walter Chaw called the film ?Lost in Translation for grown-ups? while Laura Clifford branded it ?an exquisite, dreamy romance that drifts among different time periods, locations and maybe even life and death itself?.

The film screens at Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute tomorrow night at 7.30 p.m. Tickets are $5 for BIFF Film Club members and $8 for non-members. They are available at the door from 6.30 p.m.

Before the film, enjoy a three-course early dinner special at La Coquille $29.75 + grats. Phone La Coquille at 292-6122 to make a reservation.